On September 9, 2013 I entered the E. Barrett Prettyman
Court house, which houses the federal Court of Appeals for the District of
Colombia Circuit. It was 8:30am and in one and a half hours, oral arguments in
Verizon v. FCC were slated to begin. I assumed that arriving an hour before the doors would
open would be time enough to get a seat for the case. However, I encountered a
line of over a hundred people already waiting to enter the courtroom, and by
the time I entered the court room, space was limited to standing room only.
As oral
arguments proceeded, the panel asked a litany of questions about the
question whether the FCC’s Open Internet Order treats broadband providers as
common carriers. The arguments seemed rather esoteric, focusing on specific
sections within the Order and the Telecommunications Act of 1996…..To ReadMore….
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